"Hollywood's
first big step toward producing a movie in any way comparable to 'The
Red Shoes' or 'Tales of Hoffmann' has been taken by MGM," wrote Helen
Bower in the Detroit Free Press on November 22, 1951. "The
picture, 'An American in Paris' in Technicolor with George Gershwin's
music, opens Wednesday at the Adams Theater."

At
the Paradise, Cameron Mitchell and Joanna Blake starred on screen in Smuggler's
Gold, while on stage, music was performed by Johnny Hodges and
his Castlerock Orchestra, The Orioles, Joe Morris and His Orchestra, and
Jackie "Moms" Mabley.

An
American in Paris played for two months at the Adams, until January
24, 1952, before being replaced with I
Want You (Dana Andrews, Dorothy McGuire, Farley Granger, Peggy
Dow).

Ann
Arbor audiences were treated to the opening of An
American in Paris at the Michigan Theatre on Saturday, November
24, 1951.

Also
playing in Ann Arbor that day were Sunny
Side of the Street (Frankie Laine, Billy Daniels, Terry Moore)
at the State; Show
Boat (Kathryn Grayson, Ava Gardner, Howard Keel) and Lucky
Nick Cain (George Raft) at the Wuerth Theatre; and Four
in a Jeep at the Orpheum Cinema. At the University of Michigan,
the SL Cinema Guild screened the 1934 classic It
Happened One Night (Claudette Colbert, Clark Gable) at the Architecture
Auditorium.

An
American in Paris played for one week at the Michigan, until November
30, 1951, before being replaced with Golden
Girl (Mitzi Gaynor, Dale Robertson, Dennis Day).